Ralf Klamma
Akademischer Oberrat, RWTH Aachen University, Germany
Ralf Klamma has a diploma degree, a doctoral degree and a habilitation all in computer science from RWTH Aachen University. Currently, he leads a research group at the information systems chair, RWTH Aachen University. In 2001, he was a visiting fellow at the MIT Entrepreneurship Center of MIT Sloan School of Management. He is vice coordinator of the IP ROLE (Responsive Open Learning Environment) and involved in 3 other EU TEL projects (GALA, TELLNET, TELMAP). He is also member of the research excellence cluster "Ultra High Speed Mobile Information and Communication" (UMIC). He chaired several conferences in technology enhanced learning and multimedia (EC-TEL, ICWL, UbiMedia) and is associate editor of IEEE TLT and Springer SNAM. He is standing expert in the W3C Multimedia Annotation Working Group and active member of the Multmedia Metadata Community where he organized numerous workshops and panels related to digital video on the Web. In 2011 he was co-editor of a special issue in the World Wide Web Journal on "Advances in ubiquitous media technologies and applications".